Sentences with phrase «into embarrassed silence»
Matters of theory rarely disturbed the 20th - century palaeontologists; they assigned species names to practically every fossil they found until biologist Ernst Mayr, wielding insights from genetics, stunned them into embarrassed silence.
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Some had a particular and curious hatred for St John Paul, announcing that there would be a Divine intervention to prevent his canonisation, only to fall into embarrassed silence when that prediction failed along with others.